Real-Time Digital Twins: Vision and Research Directions for 6G and Beyond

Ahmed Alkhateeb; Shuaifeng Jiang; Gouranga Charan

doi:10.1109/MCOM.001.2200866

Real-Time Digital Twins: Vision and Research Directions for 6G and Beyond

Ahmed Alkhateeb, Shuaifeng Jiang, Gouranga Charan

Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of (IAFSE)

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This article presents a vision where real-time digital twins of the physical wireless environments are continuously updated using multi-modal sensing data from the distributed infrastructure and user devices, and are used to make communication and sensing decisions. This vision is mainly enabled by advances in precise 3D maps, multi-modal sens-ing, ray-tracing computations, and machine/deep learning. This article details this vision, explains the different approaches for constructing and utilizing these real-time digital twins, discusses the applications and open problems, and presents a research platform that can be used to investigate various digital twin research directions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	128-134
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	61
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2200866
State	Published - Nov 1 2023

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